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- From: calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert)
- Subject: Re: where should SET name=thing go?
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- Organization: Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
- References: <Bz8HIA.B9M@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> <1992Dec14.065220.19796@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec14.151847.17868@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 23:27:25 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec14.151847.17868@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >> The 'Autoexec.Bat' is there for DOS sessions only.
- >
- >The tricky part of this, as I indicated in another post, is that
- >AUTOEXEC.BAT gets runs for *all* simulated DOS sessions (but not for
- >"specific DOS")
-
- What do you mean here "specific DOS"?
-
- >
- >There needs to be
- >a way to do this stuff only when you are spawning an interactive DOS
- >session; otherwise you want to have a streamlined AUTOEXEC that
- >basically contains only SET statements. It turns out that OS/2 goes out
- >of its way to make this difficult. It is nothing short of diabolical.
- >
-
- If CONFIG.SYS is for OS/2, and AUTOEXEC.BAT is for DOS, where is the
- normal DOS CONFIG.SYS stuff?
-
- Is this all contained in the Settings, Session, DOS Settings for each
- application? What if I want to change some config setting for all my
- DOS appls? Do I have to edit every Settings entry?
-
- This would be a very messy way do go. Do IBM people listen to the
- comp.os.os2.* newsgroups? Will they pick up on the need for a better
- approach here as an improvement suggestion? Is there an email address
- for suggestion to IBM? Is there any end to the questions?
-
- Thanks for the detailed reply and solution in the previous post.
-
- John
- calvert@mast.queensu.ca
-